Beyond Radical Islam?
Major Conference in Michigan
Friday, April 16 - Sunday, April 18, 2004
This conference will address the following questions: Does radical Islam represent a distortion of traditional or "true" Islam? Is there a liberal alternative to radical Islam?  If so, what does a liberal Islam look like?  Under what conditions is liberal Islam likely to emerge, and what will it require, both from the West and from within Islam itself, for its future development? The participants include Francis Fukuyama, Nurcholish Madjid, Husain Haqqani, and more than a dozen other leading scholars.

The Struggle for Iraqi Civil Society
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Come hear Zainab Al-Suwaij speak at EPPC this Thursday on the most pressing issue of the day. Ms. Al-Suwaij is executive director of the American Islamic Congress and a consultant with USAID working in Iraq to rebuild the country's school system and to implement women’s empowerment programs. The event starts at noon with a free catered lunch.

Muslim American Politics After September 11
A Conversation with Ahmed H. al-Rahim
Monday, November 24, 2003
How do American Muslims view their roles within American society and the Muslim world in general? The Ethics and Public Policy Center has invited Ahmed al-Rahim -- a founding member of the American Islamic Congress and a frequent contributor to television and radio programs on Islam and politics -- to address this and other questions concerning American Muslim politics after September 11.

Dissension and Dialogue In The Post-9/11 American Muslim Community
Thursday, October 2, 2003
Abdulaziz Sachedina, Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies at the University of Virginia, spoke at the Center about the present and future relationship between Islam and democracy.

The Opportuntity Before Us
Friday, April 4, 2003
Shortly before the start of the recent war in Iraq, Zainab Al-Suwaij—the executive director of the American Islamic Congress, and a prominent Iraqi dissident—came to the Ethics and Public Policy Center to discuss the prospects for a future democracy in Iraq.

Islam and the West
Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World
Monday, March 10, 2003
The massive changes that swept the world in the last decade led many to assume that traditional societies would be subordinated to the comprehensive and irreversible movement of globalization. But the terrorist attacks of September 11 revealed a world driven less by economics than by traditional notions of identity, belief, and honor. What is the role of honor in Muslim culture and politics?

The Roots of Muslim Anger
A Conversation with Tashbih Sayyed
Thursday, January 9, 2003
The Ethics and Public Policy Center has launched a series of seminars and conversations through which distinguished American Muslim leaders, as well as Muslim leaders from abroad, can have an opportunity to present and explore their reflections on these subjects with their fellow non-Muslim American colleagues.  The fourth speaker in this series will be Tashbih Sayyed, who is presently editor of Pakistan Today

Islamic Political Thought and Democracy
A Conversation with Khaled Abou El Fadl
Thursday, December 12, 2002
What are the views of the American Muslim community about its role within American society and the Muslim world in general? What are its views of the relationship between Islam and democracy? What unique experiences and perspectives can American Muslims living within a democratic society offer to the diversity of views within the wider Muslim world? What does the tradition of Islamic political thought and jurisprudence have to say to American Muslims at this juncture? These important questions have all come to the fore since the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Islam and Constitutionalism
A Conversation with Sohail Hashmi
Friday, November 22, 2002
The Ethics and Public Policy Center has launched a series of seminars and conversations through which distinguished American Muslim leaders, as well as Muslim leaders from abroad, can have an opportunity to present and explore their reflections on these subjects with their fellow non-Muslim American colleagues. The third speaker in this series is Dr. Sohail Hashmi, who is presently Assistant Professor of International Relations at Mt. Holyoke College.

The Future of Islam and Democracy
A Conversation with Shaykh Kabbani
Thursday, July 11, 2002
Shaykh Kabbani is the first lecturer in the Islam and American Democracy Project. At a conference held at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, he spoke on the nature and place of democracy within an Islamic context.